In 1869, Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky, whom we watch as he obsessively follows his stepson’s ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim, and whether he loved or despised his stepfather. The novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the...(展开全部)

在另一个向度上，库切把陀思妥耶夫斯基的生活中人和其他作品的人物也邀请到 1869年的彼得堡，让他们和陀思妥耶夫斯基一起在“地下室”、“火”等属于陀思安耶夫斯基话语的场景里，参与到陀思妥耶夫斯基的精神生活中去。小说中，库切多采用现在进行时，并用他（he）来叙述，形成作品中的共时性。情节在共时性的作用下，使人物的自由行动处在一种关键时刻，是陀思妥耶夫斯基，也是库切让自己的主人公承受特殊的精神折磨，以此逼迫主人公把达到极度紧张的自我意识讲出来。正如巴赫金说的，陀思妥耶夫斯基的主人公都是些思想家式的人物：具有伟大而尚未解决的思想的小人物。那么，在《彼得堡的大师》中，库切创造了思想的陀思安耶夫斯基。这样，不仅是陀思安耶夫斯基的作品人物具有开放的、鲜活的他人意识，陀思妥耶夫斯基本人也拥有完全独立的声音，发出价值十足的议论，与作者形成多重的平等的对话关系。如果说陀...(展开全部)

Review "Compulsively readable...Any writer who can get his audience to ask breathlessly, 'What next?' needs no help from this or any other envious reviewer". -- New York Times Book Review From the Back Cover WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among ...(展开全部)

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata ca...(展开全部)

Review "Compulsively readable...Any writer who can get his audience to ask breathlessly, 'What next?' needs no help from this or any other envious reviewer". -- New York Times Book Review From the Back Cover WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among ...(展开全部)

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)

"The most important... Russian novel of the 20th century." -"The New York Times Book Review" Considered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, "Petersburg," is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside "Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, " and "In Search of Lost Time," that captures Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist revolution in 1905...(展开全部)

Here is the long-awaited, authoritative, unabridged translation of Petersburg, the Chef d'oeuvre of Symbolist writer Andrei Bely. Nabokov has ranked Petersburg beside Joyce's Ulysses, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Proust's la recherche du temps perdu as one of the four great works of prose fiction of the twentieth century.

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。